Background
Vasily Gippius was born June 26, 1890, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation into a family of State Councilor. The ancient Gippius family came from Germany, and the poet Zinaida Gippius also belonged to it.
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Vasily Gippius was born June 26, 1890, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation into a family of State Councilor. The ancient Gippius family came from Germany, and the poet Zinaida Gippius also belonged to it.
Vasily Gippius graduated from the 6th Saint Petersburg Grammar School in 1908. In 1908-1913 he studied at the historical and philological faculty of the University of Saint Petersburg (now Saint Petersburg State University), at the Romano-German, then at the Slavic departments.
Vasily Gippius was under the deep influence of the V. Komissarzhevskaya, in the 1910s was close to the quests of V. Meyerhold. In 1908, Vasily Gippius made his debut in print with a translation from Horace (Hermes, 1908). In the same year, he began publishing poems. In 1910, Vasily Gippius published a number of articles and reviews in the newspaper Against the current. In 1910-1913, he regularly wrote poems and reviews in the New life magazine. In 1911, Vasily Gippius joined the Workshop of poets, published in the magazine Hyperborea (1912). In 1918, he published a memoir about the Guild of poets, in which he skeptically viewed Acmeism as a school. Many poems were written before 1917 were published in post-revolutionary Kiev publications, as well as in the Kharkiv magazine Kolosya (1918), where Gippius' prose was also printed. He translated "Puss in Boots" by L. Thicke.
Since the early 1910s, Vasily Gippius has been worked hard on the history of Russian literature. Gippius' main area of interest after October 1917 was the work of Nikolai Gogol; he also owns works about A.S. Pushkin, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, and memories of Blok (the book "from Pushkin to Blok", 1966).
Vasily Gippius had 2 children: Nikodim was a Russian writer and Sergey was a theater writer, an employee of the Leningrad State Institute of theater, music, and cinematography.